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Globalization and Its Discontents
Author: Joseph Stiglitz
Reader: John Smith
£
7.92 ex VATa
Genre/sub-genre:
Fiction &
drama - Sci-Fi
Format:
Large Print Hardcover
Imprint:
Windsor Large Print
Cassettes/CDs: 320 |
Playing time:
1
ISBN:
014101038X
Publication Date:
Apr 2003
Availability:
50 in stock
Due Date:
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 Book description:
From the Nobel Prizewinning author of Globalization and Its Discontents comes a
coruscating analysis of the boom and bust of the 1990s – how and why it
happened, how the seeds of destruction were sown in the midst of apparent
prosperity, and how America and the world are still failing to learn the
lessons from what went wrong. It was, in some respects, a decade of real
achievements and growth. But Stiglitz shows how the boom was artificially
fuelled in the US by excessive deregulation, by perverse ‘incentivizing’ of
CEOs, and conflicts of interest that ran out of control. He uncovers the full
extent of the damage done by those who effectively stole money by sleight of
hand from their own companies. Stiglitz was deeply involved in many of the
policy decisions of the decade: he praises the Clinton Administration for its
aspirations and criticizes it for its failure to live up to them, especially
the degree to which it buckled to pressure from big financial interests. Here
he reveals for the first time the heated discussions that took place before
policies were set.
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